The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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